Downtown
Connecticut Sculpture is Looking for New Home
The sculpture is gone for now but plans are afoot for it to reappear the only question is where.
RTD has the scoop on a mystery that had people buzzing over the weekend. A familiar face in Shockoe Bottom went missing on Friday. The face is massive you can’t miss it. Connecticut is the massive (10′ high by 25′ wide) Native American sculpture that resided previously at the Diamond but has lived the past eight years atop the Lucky Strike building. Interesting tidbit from the Virginia Museum of History and Culture is that originally the sculpture was destined for the top of a liquor store at 2600 Connecticut Avenue in Washington, D.C. Family infighting killed that project and he made the journey down south.
The sculpture is down and its creator Paul DiPasquale is working to refurbish it before it heads into storage. Don’t fret if you’re a fan there is a plan.
Developers Charles Macfarlane and Sam McDonald, who own the Lucky Strike Building at 2700 E. Cary St., had the sculpture, named Connecticut, removed last Friday from the corner parapet over which it had peered for the past eight years.
Richmond artist Paul DiPasquale, who finished the sculpture in the early 1980s, will refurbish it as the developers decide whether to return it to the rooftop or mount it on a new one, Macfarlane said.
“It’s secret, but we think we’ve got a location that would be better, that’s closer to the river and closer to downtown,” Macfarlane said. “I’ll just leave it at that.”
